Sunday, September 20, 2009
Karma Has a New Name: Kanye
Finally, for once, President Obama and I agree on something. Kanye West is a jackass, and not just for stealing sweet, 19-year-old Taylor Swift’s microphone and award-winning moment at the VMA awards. Kanye rakes in millions as a singer, yet he’s tone deaf: fans cringed in “fingernails-on-blackboard” pain when Kanye’s auto-tune pitch correction microphone malfunctioned on “American Idol.” Not only can Taylor Swift sing circles around Kanye, even Yoko Ono can sing better than Kanye.
Suddenly it occurs to me that Kanye West and Barack Obama share more than their African roots. They both carry the “I’m Not Worthy” gene: Kanye can’t sing without a mic that fixes his voice, and Obama can’t speak cogently or even politically correct without a teleprompter or his Press Secretary Gibbs. But I digress….
My multi-racial teenage sons and I are private citizens. We can scream at the TV, “Kanye, you’re an idiot! You’re a racist! You suck!” because he is and does, in our most humble opinions, and because the victim, Taylor is a gifted singer, a gracious young woman and, according to my teens, “very hot, Mom!” We can call Kanye anything we want in the privacy of our family room, and there will be no worldwide outcry.
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But President Obama is the leader of the free world, and Kanye West is a U.S. citizen, a voter and one of Obama’s very rich supporters. Obama called Kanye “a jackass” in front of reporters, and in less than 24 hours, his “off the record” lapse in judgment was heard around the world. Pity Kanye’s music is still “on the record,” namely Obama’s election compact disc.
So here I sit, as a private citizen and mom of two impressionable teen boys, and I have lots of questions for our Commander in Chief. Why would you, the President of the United States, single out a private U.S. citizen, especially a boob like West, and call him “a jackass” while talking with reporters? Why are you trying to distract us from the real issues, chiefly a precipitous drop in support for your government-run health care reform and your rapidly declining popularity among both blacks and whites?
With all due respect, sir, given your school address last week, will you take personal responsibility for your actions, as you admonished my sons to do? Will you call Kanye and apologize to him? Will you invite him to the White House for a beer? If Kanye requests a forty ounce of Colt 45, will you let him have it? And will the Secret Service drive him home?
I also wonder, will the House and Senate censure Obama for embarrassing them? Will they demand at least three apologies: a call, a letter and a flogging in Congress, a la Joe Wilson? Will my fellow Americans censure Obama and Congress in 2010 and 2012 for embarrassing all of us, around the world and here at home? Parents ask the darnedest questions.
Now that I think about it, there are a few more donkeys worth calling out. My mother told me never to say something today that I would not want plastered on the news tomorrow. Sage advice that’s still relevant in our “news-in-a-nanosecond” world. In addition, reporters no longer seem to know what good journalism requires: a quiet respect for “off-the-record” banter, a bloodthirsty zeal for ferreting out real news (ACORN?) and a passion for reporting the truth, the whole truth and nuttin’ but da truth.
Ask the two million Stop-Big-Government protesters who marched on Washington, D.C. on September 12th, whose numbers were reported by the mainstream media (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC) as merely “tens of thousands.” The marchers are still being unfairly depicted as white racists who just can’t accept our black President. Yet these fine citizens, who made the long trip to Washington, D.C., (and the 20 people they each represented who could not go), proved first-hand that “truth in journalism” is just one more lie, among so many told today.
It is ironic and soulfully satisfying to this red-white-and-not-blue-blooded mama, that the same media donkeys who daily label me and 143 million American citizens as “racists,” simply because we did not vote for Obama, turned on their Chosen One and bit the Presidential hand that feeds them. Karma’s a bitch, and its name is Kanye.
